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WATCHING YOU by David B. Axelrod I spent till sunrise watching you, your restless breaths, your fine-boned face, your nakedness defined in blue-gray light of quarter moon. You sighed and turned and still I stared, the crisp curled knot of sun-bleached hair tied up to bare a soft, long neck, small shoulders, the outline of small breasts. Until you turned again toward me, eyes flickering in half su rprise. I spent till sunrise watching you, protector of your dreams and sighs. from LOVE IN THE KEYS

IN THE LOBBY by William Marinelli (for all my fellow grad students) The atmosphere dances lively chatter mixes with laughter weather, parties, schedules, gossip, jumbled like popping corn. Smiles dissipate troubles long enough to remind us life is enjoyable. worries of assignments, papers, deadlines, unread chapters, unturned pages, forgotten momentarily like the stomped, scrunched-up coffee cup tossed to the wastebasket (only missed). A friend's greeting fades as she rushes to class. Voices depart, radios fade empty chairs patch the bare lobby lights now shine on the floor not on faces stairs stand still halls are silent as the lobby waits, and waits, and waits. From Gone Fishing (Writers Ink Press)

FIELDS by Daniel Axelrod And they all seemed surreal so terribly surreal as they swayed softly in the wind parting the air like tiny green hands with sunshine flickering. And they tried to slip out of my mind but they stayed like jelly in a strainer. Incredible contrast of branches and the sky and the clouds moving slowly like ice cubes in a giant blue soda glass as they drifted in a fizzy wind. From Staircase Wisdom (Writers Ink Press)

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